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This is a high-level summary of the most important changes. For a full list of changes, see the git commit log

v3.0.1

  • In development

This is major version upgrade incompatible with previous versions

  • Although the concept is the same, most of the command options have been changed or have different purpose

New Features

  • SvcBatch can now be used to install and manage services
  • Use Windows registry instead command line options
  • Improve the support for running alternate script interpreters

v2.1.2

  • Drop inconsistent -bb option
  • Improve detecting invalid command option values

New Features

  • Add -c command option for setting alternative script interpreters
  • Add -e command option for setting the environment variable(s) for the current process
  • Add -g command option for generating ctrl+break instead ctrl+c on service stop

v2.1.1

  • Enable service recovery if service terminates without stop signal
  • Do not wait for shutdown process cleanup on timeout
  • Kill all child processes if service terminates without stop signal
  • Drop useless -c command option
  • Enable log rotation by signal, only if -rS option was defined at install time
  • Enable -v option even if logging is disabled
  • If not an absolute path, create log directory relative to the work directory
  • Fix creating log directories with more then two missing intermediate paths

New Features

  • Add /E:ON and /V:OFF switches when starting cmd.exe to disable system registry settings influencing services

v2.1.0

  • Drop complex and unstable external log application support.
  • Drop experimental console mode with _DEBUG builds
  • Use object structures instead global variables
  • Do not rotate logs if previous rotation was less then 2 minutes ago
  • Use asynchronous read from redirected console process
  • Ensure that all started processes are properly terminated
  • Deprecate setting locale with -c command option
  • Check for mutually exclusive options at startup
  • Drop support for multiple -n options. The -n parameter will be used both for service and shutdown log names
  • Disable -m0 command option. Users should use -t option instead
  • Always overwrite existing log files
  • Log status messages to separate SvcBatch.status.log file

New Features

  • Add SVCBATCH_SERVICE_LOGS environment variable
  • Add SVCBATCH_SERVICE_WORK environment variable
  • Add SVCBATCH_APP_BIN, SVCBATCH_APP_DIR and SVCBATCH_APP_VER environment variables
  • Add -h command option that enables to have separate home and work directories
  • Add -k command option for changing default stop timeout
  • Use -c command option to set user defined code page
  • Add arguments from the service start application to the existing batch file arguments

v2.0.0

This is major version upgrade incompatible with previous 1.x versions

  • Drop external log application support for shutdown batch file
  • Do not rotate shutdown log files
  • Drop -d command option in favor of _DEBUG builds
  • Drop -a command option in favor of multiple -s options

New Features

  • Add -c command option for changing default run-time locale
  • Add -q command option to disable logging
  • Add -t command option that will truncate log file
  • Use -m command option to replace previous -r0...9
  • Add -v command option that enables to log various internal messages
  • Add support for log rotation at each full hour
  • Add strftime support for log file names
  • Enable to run services in console mode with _DEBUG builds

v1.4.0

  • Terminate external log application if it fails to exit within 5 seconds after closing log files
  • Use service batch file as shutdown batch file if -a was defined and -s was not
  • Drop experimental support for user rotate service control for external log applications
  • Drop SVCBATCH_SERVICE_MODE environment variable
  • Drop SVCBATCH_SERVICE_LOGDIR environment variable
  • Stop service if write to logfile fails

v1.3.4

  • Remove automatic log flush
  • Use high-resolution timer for internal logging
  • Fix issues with reporting errors to Windows Event Log
  • Fix quoting arguments for batch files

New Features

  • Add -a command option that enables to provide arguments to shutdown batch file

v1.3.3

  • Not released

v1.3.2

  • Report to system Event Log if external log application fails at run time

New Features

  • Enable external log applications to handle user rotate service control
  • Add -l command option to use local instead system time for log rotation and messages

v1.3.1

  • Do not start rotate thread if log rotation is disabled
  • Kill service if log file is closed at runtime

New Features

  • Add -e command option that enables to start external log application
  • Add -n command option that enables to change default log file name prefix
  • Add SVCBATCH_SERVICE_MODE environment variable

v1.3.0

  • Fix SvcBatch.log flushing
  • Correctly report exit codes from child processes

New Features

  • Send additional arguments to batch file if defined at install time
  • Add full support for building with msys2 or cygwin environment
  • Add -q command option for disabling internal status logging

v1.2.2

  • Disable log rotation if -r 0 is defined at install time
  • Create rotated log names using current system time instead last write time
  • Fix service stop when shutdown script is unresponsive
  • Create svcbatch.h from svcbatch.h.in at build time
  • Create svcbatch.manifest from svcbatch.manifest.in at build time
  • Add more advanced command line option parser

v1.2.1

  • Fix dead services waiting on Terminate batch job (Y/N)?
  • Add -d command option for debug tracing
  • Fix propagating CTRL_C_EVENT from shutdown process
  • Use the same rotation rules for shutdown log
  • Add rule option to define SVC_MAX_LOGS at runtime
  • Add option to disable log rotation

v1.2.0

  • Drop experimental RunBatch feature
  • Allow relative paths for SVCBATCH_SERVICE_HOME
  • Make sure that SVCBATCH_SERVICE_BASE is set to service batch file directory.
  • In case both batch file and working directory are relative paths use svcbatch.exe as home.

v1.1.1

  • Not released
  • Use -s option for SvcBatchEnd batch file
  • Remove -c (clean path) support
  • Ensure that SvcBatchRun and SvcBatchEnd processes are closed in timely manner
  • Use Job Objects for SvcBatchRun and SvcBatchEnd

v1.1.0

  • Add RunBatch feature
  • Add feature to run batch file on service stop.
  • Add Service preshutdown option
  • Increase SVC_MAX_LOGS to 9
  • Drop interactive mode
  • Remove _RUN_API_TEST
  • Remove _DBGVIEW_SAVE
  • Remove experimental support for service pause/continue

v1.0.6

  • Fix log rotation timeout processing
  • Improve _DGVIEW_SAVE thread safety
  • Report error to Service Manager if createiopipes fails
  • Log SvcBatch features defined at install time
  • Add interactive mode
  • Added support for service pause/continue

v1.0.5

  • Improve release creation procedure
  • Drop NULL DACL and use default security descriptor associated with the access token of the calling process

v1.0.4

  • Add support for log file auto rotation
  • Rotate logs if service is running more then 30 days and auto rotation is not defined at create time
  • Add support for SvcBatch.dbg if _DBGSAVE=1 is defined at build time
  • Add support for vendor version suffix
  • Update examples and documentation
  • Fix issues with corrupt log files due to thread synchronization

v1.0.3

  • No need to report SERVICE_CONTROL_INTERROGATE
  • Use Job to close child processes instead tlhelp32 API

v1.0.2

  • New release
  • Drop make install

v1.0.1

  • Use static msvcrt for release builds

v1.0.0

  • First release
  • Cleanup code

v0.9.9

  • Cleanup code
  • Add PowerShell examples

v0.9.7

  • Drop entire ABI concept
  • Add SVCBATCH_SERVICE_LOGDIR variable
  • Drop console shutdown signals

v0.9.6

  • Restore original SvcBach.log if rotation fails

v0.9.5

  • Increased the number of log files to 4
  • Switched ABI to 20201209
  • Dropped support for exitonerror
  • Cleaned-up code and removed unused and duplicate stuff
  • Updated documentation and added more examples

v0.9.4

  • Dropped support for parent shutdown signal
  • Cleaned-up code inconsistency

v0.9.3

  • Added support to send shutdown signal from batch files to parent
  • Sending CTRL_BREAK must now be explicitly enabled with /b switch

v0.9.2

  • Kill entire child process tree even if child already terminated

v0.9.1-dev

  • Initial release